David S Harvey

“One senses that we are poised here on a fulcrum, that a standing or falling point has been reached, that somehow being a disciple of Jesus is intimately tied up with how one stands in regard to the Eucharist. In response to Jesus’ question, Peter, as is often the case in the Gospels, spoke for the group: “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God” (John 6:68–69).”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“Thomas Aquinas is arguing that, at the Eucharist, the appearances of bread and wine do not tell the deepest truth about what is really present and that, in point of fact, the authoritative word of Christ does.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“A coward is a man who is afraid and runs away; the man who is frightened but does not run away, is not quite a coward," said the prince with a smile, after a moment's thought.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“there is no other God behind this God, or alongside of him, or around him. God is love and that is all there is to it. This is the God whom Jesus Christ and his Spirit reveal and there is no other.”
― Douglas Campbell, Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel